Device for roasting chestnuts and the like.



T E ATTWELL DEVICE FOR ROASTING GHESTNUTS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED D3013), 1908.

Patented June 1, 1909.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEVICE FOR ROASTING GHESTNUTS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 30, 1908.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Serial No. 469,961.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE ELLARD ATTWELL, a subject of His Majestythe King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing atHadleigh, Essex, in the county of Essex, in that part of the UnitedKingdom called England, have invented a new or Improved Device forRoasting Chestnuts and the Like, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a new or improved device for roastingchestnuts and the like the object being to provide a simple andefficient contrivance so formed as to contain a quantity of such nutsand capable of being suspended from the bars of any ordinary fire grate,while means are provided whereby the said device may be quickly andeasily reversed so as to admit of the nuts or the like being thoroughlyroasted on both sides. To this end a preferably rectangular wire basketor frame is provided which is comparatively long in proportion to itsbreadth and this basket or frame is designed to hold the nuts or thelike while at each side and at the extremities thereof it is furnishedwith a pair of hooks whereby it may be suspended from the bars of agrate and in order that it may be conveniently turned as required, it iscarried upon a transverse cross rod, pivoting in the ends of the basketor frame, in connection with which a suitable handle is arranged toadmit of it being readily turned from side with reference to theaccompanying drawing which is a diagrammatic perspective view of adevice according to this invention.

As clearly shown in the drawing the device comprises a wire basket orframe a preferably to the ends 0 of which are secured pairs ofoppositely opposed hooks b for supporting it as hereinbefore describedwhile it is carried upon a cross rod 01 pivoting in the ends 6 andhaving arranged in connection therewith a handle e whereby it may belifted and turned as required.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Adevice for roasting chestnuts and the like comprising a laterallyextended wire frame or basket furnished with oppositely opposed pairs ofhooks and carried upon a transverse cross bar or rod, pivoting in theends of the basket or arranged in connection therewith, substantially asherein described and shown and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEODORE ELLARI) ATTWELL.

Witnesses:

OLIVE DACE,

VICTOR LAZARUS.

